The Enquirer
The Ohio Supreme Court has turned down a request to review Ryan Widmer’s conviction in the 2008 bathtub drowning of his wife, Sarah, 24.
Widmer, 32, a Colerain Township native who last lived in Mason, is serving 15 years to life in prison.
While prosecutors assert that ample evidence points to a forced drowning, Widmer protests his innocence.
He and his supporters say his young wife showed possible signs of a genetic heart-rhythm disorder that could have caused her to drown. But she was never tested for that condition.
Widmer’s lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the conviction after their appeal to the Ohio 12th District Court of Appeals failed in January.
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